Bobsled Bonanza/Strategies

There are many strategies to beat this mini-game. This Pool mini-game is one of the toughest mini-games, so don't worry if you don't beat it on your first try, as many people usually don't.

Players on the Nintendo DS version take caution, as these strategies are designed for the other versions. The Nintendo DS version does not give 45 seconds of planting before the first zombie comes out, so keep this in mind.

Note: Chompers will devour whole Zombie Bobsled Teams if they have not come out of the bobsled.
Plant Sunflowers in the back, and when a Zomboni comes, use a Squash. When a Bobsled Team appears, use a Jalapeno, which also melts the ice. If you don't have any instant kills, use your Imitater. Plant Cattails to help kill other zombies.

Strategy 2

The first two columns are Sunflowers (switch to Repeaters later, shifting the Sunflowers to the right end of the pool). Plant Chompers in the third column behind the Wall-nuts. Wall-nuts, Potato Mines, and Cherry Bombs are for Zombie Bobsled Teams that reach the end of the ice. Threepeaters can substitute the Lily Pads.

Strategy 4

This strategy is so simple, nine words can describe it: two columns of Sunflowers and two columns of Gloom-shrooms. Nothing will get past it.

Note: The trick is building it. The iOS version only has 3 ice free columns, and the bobsledders will overrun you early. You need a lot of defense before you can build the columns.

Strategy 5

Plant eight Sunflowers on the first and second columns at the 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 6th rows. In front of the Sunflowers, plant at least two Peashooters at every lane. Plant two Peashooters for the pool lanes as well, on top of Lily Pad, to have defense against Ducky Tube Zombies. Melt the ice as soon as possible with Jalapeno. After melting ice, add Spikeweeds and upgrade to Spikerocks as soon as possible to prevent more ice from coming in. Plant Cattail and Wall-nut or Tall-nuts for more defense.

Strategy 6 - The Armageddon Method

Plant a minimum of eight Sunflowers in the leftmost ranks. Use the Squash (cheap) wherever possible to stomp Zombonis, and plant Potato Mines (cheap and quick to regenerate) as backup Zomboni killers and to take out entire Bobsled Teams. As things get more chaotic, move up to the heavier explosives. When things get really crowded, place a Doom-shroom on a Lily Pad midway down the pool, then drop a Coffee Bean on it to detonate and clear the yard nearly fence-to-fence. Clean up smaller groups with Cherry Bombs (if they are compact) or Jalapenos (if they are strung out along the file). Bide your time and wait until the last possible moment to detonate your Doom-shrooms; they take a long time to regenerate and the longer you wait, the more zombies will enter the yard (and the kill zone). If you wait too long and miss a few, or want to wait longer to draw more in, or need a few more seconds for a plant to recharge or to gather more sun, drop in a Wall-nut to slow ’em down, bunch ’em up, and give you more time to Squash ’em or blast ’em. Try to reserve the Jalapeno as your ace-in-the-hole; if your explosives timing is off and you miss a few zombies, you can use it to zap the endangered file. If you can, wait while they eat a Sunflower or two (easily replaced) and you may also be able to nail a Zomboni or Bobsled entering from the right as a bonus.

If there are too many Zombie Bobsled Teams in one row, use the Cherry Bomb in the middle of them. Reserve your Jalapenos for urgent uses. Don't waste them on rows with just ice and no zombies! If a Zomboni crushes your Repeater, use the Squash to prevent them from proceeding to your house.

If you don't have the Imitater pick Spikerock instead.

Strategy 8 - Starfruit Method

This method is a cheap, 4-Slot, no Jalapeno, no Imitater method that works even with bad luck.

These can prevent any Zombie Bobsled Teams from getting through and make the level a bit less hectic, but the strategy should succeed without them.

Plants vs Zombies Bobsled Bonanza Tutorial

Video demonstration of a Starfruit-based strategy, similar to Strategy 8

Strategy 9

Plant Sunflowers on row 1 and six more in the pool as soon as you can. When the first Zomboni or Zombie Bobsled Team appears plant Spikeweed and a Peashooter on that row. Keep strengthening your defenses, and replace the ground Sunflowers with Peashooters or Repeaters. On water place Tangle Kelps.

Strategy 10

Choose these plants:

Sunflower

Lily Pad

Repeater

Jalapeno

Cherry Bomb

Squash

Spikeweed

Spikerock

Plant 8 Sunflowers on land. If a Zomboni appears, plant Spikeweed or Squash. If a Zombie Bobsled Team appear, plant a Jalapeno or Cherry Bomb (only when Jalapeno recharging). If you melt the ice, plant Spikerock or Spikeweed to stop Zombonis making ice trails. Plant Repeater as soon as you finish planting the 8 Sunflowers. If your Spikerock or Spikeweed on front destroyed, use Squash for some Zomboni.

Strategy 11

You'll need these plants:

Squash

Spikeweed

Spikerock

Sunflower

Lily Pad

Peashooter

Potato Mine

Imitater Potato Mine (optional)

Plant Sunflowers nearest to your Lawn Mowers in 1 column, on land and in the pool. Use Potato Mines for the Zombie Bobsled Teams and Squashes for the Zombonis. Then, before the first flag, make sure your put Peashooters in the pool. At the start of the game, the ice trails go all the way up to the 5th spot, so there are 4 empty lawn spaces. Because you have put a Sunflower in one of the lawn spaces, you need to fill the 3 other empty lawn spaces with Spikerocks. For the first Spikeweed placed, you need to upgrade it to a Spikerock (optional).

Strategy 12

Your plants should be:

Jalapeno

Imitater Jalapeno

Spikeweed

Spikerock

Repeater

Tall-nut

Sunflower

Lily Pad

Melon-pult

Chomper (optional)

Squash (optional but recommended)

Start by planting lots of Sunflowers. If you see a Zomboni, plant a Spikeweed, Chomper, or Squash. If you see a Zombie Bobsled Team, use a Jalapeno/Imitater Jalapeno. If you see lots of them, plant Chompers. Also, plant Repeaters as soon as possible. If you melted ice, put Tall-nuts two squares in front of them. Plant Spikerocks as quick as possible (at least one before the first flag.) After a full column of Repeaters, add Melon-pults and keep planting Spikerock. Just in case, plant Chompers 2 rows behind Spikerock. Keep this up and you'll win!

Strategy 13

To do this, you're gonna need these plants:

Sunflower

Potato Mine

Imitater Potato Mine

Lily Pad

Twin Sunflower

Cattail

Repeater

Coffee Bean

Doom-shroom

Plant Sunflowers at the back, then plant 4 Potato Mines and its Imitater version on every 4 ground lanes. Collect some sun, then plant a Cattail. Start upgrading your Sunflowers to Twin Sunflowers. Then plant another Cattail. Go replanting your Potato Mines as soon they detonate. Also plant Cattails. When you reach the second wave, plant your Repeaters behind your Potato Mines. Use your Coffee Bean to detonate your Doom-shroom during each big wave.

Strategy 14

For this strategy, you will need:

Sunflower

Twin Sunflower

Lily Pad

Jalapeno

Spikeweed

Spikerock

Starfruit

Cherry Bomb (Optional, but recommended)

Start by planting the Sunflowers at the back. Then, plant a Twin Sunflower on one of them. When the first zomboni comes, place either a Jalapeno or a Spikeweed and Spikerock. Jalapeno if it's a Zombie Bobsled Team, Spikeweed and Spikerock if it's a Zomboni. If it's a Zombie Bobsled Team, then two more come, use an Imitater Jalapeno and a Cherry Bomb. You'll get less coins if it's a fourth one, because you won't have another instant kill plant and they'll go through your Sunflower. After you put down your first Spikerock, there should be a huge wave of Zombonis. You should put down more Spikeweeds until the next Spikerock is done loading. Once it's done loading, the first huge wave of zombies should come. At this time, put your Starfruits down. If one of your four Spikerocks disappears, put down another one quickly. Keep this up until the final wave, and you win! This strategy will not work on the DS and DSi versions because the plants act very slow.

Strategy 15

Start planting Sunflowers on the left side. As a Zomboni appears, use a Spikeweed. If a Bobsled appears, plant Potato Mines on every lane. As the game progresses the columns next to Sunflower should have a Peashooter in a Pumpkin. Every lane should have Spikeweeds upgraded to Spikerocks, and replace quickly if broken. In pool lanes, plant Peashooters in Pumpkins and you can even plant more Sunflowers. With these steps the mini-game is a piece of cake.

Strategy 16

Get 10 Sunflowers in the back 2 columns (6 on the 1st column, 4 land Sunflowers on the 2nd column.) When a Zomboni arrives, squash it. If a second one comes, plant a Spikeweed. If a Zombie Bobsled Team arrives, use a Jalapeno and Imitater Jalapeno for the second one, Cherry Bombs for the third. while defending against these, plant 2 Cattails in the pool on column 2. The first wave will begin.

Waves 1-end:

Plant Cattails in the pool until they reach the 4th column. While Cattails are recharging, plant Spikerocks on columns 3 and 4. If you have it, put land Cacti on column 2 once you have about 250 sun or plant Chompers in column 5 of the water. Later, replace the pool Sunflowers with Cattails. Finished (for the zombies)

Zombie Yeti:

If you spot the Zombie Yeti, let your Cattails take care of it. If he tries to run away, dig the back Sunflower and put a Jalapeno.

Strategy 17

Start immediately with planting Sunflowers on the land lanes, in the first two columns (from the house). When you're almost finished, the first zombies should appear. When it's a Zomboni, blow it up with a Potato Mine. When it's a Zombie Bobsled Team, burn it down with a Jalapeno. After you've melted some ice, plant Spikeweed in the first column (from the zombies). Upgrade to Spikerock as soon as possible. Continue doing so until all the ice is gone while also planting extra Spikeweed behind the Spikerock and some Cattails in the water to stop normal Zombies. When the Spikerock starts showing damage, upgrade the Spikeweed behind it to Spikerock. When you have 4-6 Cattails in the water, sit back and enjoy the big zombie massacre!

Strategy 18 (No Sunflower)

No Sunflowers needed. Although it requires a bit of luck at the start. It is definitely possible.

Strategy 19 - Instant Kills

This is what the strategy should look like

Choose the following plants:

Lily Pad

Squash

Cherry Bomb

Tangle Kelp

Jalapeno

Imitater Jalapeno

Spikeweed

Chomper

Sunflower

Wall-nut (Optional, don't pick if you only have 9 slots)

Start by planting Sunflowers in the first 4 columns in the pool. After all 8 are in place, start planting 2 columns of Sunflowers on the land lanes. Whenever Zombonis come, plant a Spikeweed or Squash in front to kill them. For Bobsleds, try planting a Chomper at the end of the ice trail, as the Chomper will be able to eat the entire bobsled including all the zombies inside. If the zombies get out before your chance, use a Jalapeno to destroy them, and it will also destroy the ice trail. Use Cherry Bombs whenever large clumps of zombies grouped together, or whenever stray zombies end up without any defenses. You can also use any other of the instant kills for that. Use Tangle Kelp whenever zombies end up in the pool during waves. If you have 10 slots and you chose the Wall-nut, use them to group zombies together before using a Cherry Bomb or Squash. Keep following this strategy, even if it seems to be failing, and you should pull through in the end.

Strategy 20 - Repeater and Spikeweed

Victory!

Set up a double column of Sunflowers. Put Repeaters in the third and fourth columns where possible and Torchwood in the fifth column or just in front of a Repeater or two. Defend your pool with Tangle Kelp. Use Spikeweed to defend against incoming Zombonis that you cannot handle with flaming peas. Wall-nuts can be handy keeping bobsledders at bay until the Repeaters can take them out. Jalapenos are also useful when there are too many zombies and before you get all your plants in.
Voila! Victory!

Strategy 21

Plants needed:

Sunflower

Lily Pad

Spikeweed

Spikerock

Jalapeno

Peashooter

Tall-nut

(optional) Squash

(optional) Cherry Bomb

Strategy:

Plant your Sunflowers in the left most column, but not the pool. You should have the column filled with four Sunflowers before the mini-game actually starts.

Save up your sun until a zombie (Zombie Bobsled Team or Zomboni) shows up, and use a Jalapeno on that row.

A bit of luck is needed here. Save your sun up again, and wait for a Zomboni to appear. Take the Zombie Bobsled Teams out with Peashooters, Tall-nuts and Squashes. (Cherry Bombs use a lot of sun.) When the Zomboni shows up, hopefully you'll have enough sun for a Spikeweed and Spikerock. Plant it in front of the Zomboni, and watch him blow up.

If you were lucky, the Zomboni would have showed up in the ice-free column. If not, don't despair! If it didn't, plant a Spikeweed in the column next to your Spikerock. (The side closer to your house.) Why? It takes 3 Spikeweeds (or 1 Spikeweed and 1 Spikerock) to kill a zombie from a Zombie Bobsled Team. There! Unless 9 Zombonis come in that row, it's safe!

Do the same for the other ice trails.

You'll notice that zombies will start to attack from the pool. they'll only be normal zombies, so just plant 2 Lily Pads on the leftmost column and plant Peashooters on them.

When your Spikerocks only have one spike left, dig them up and place them back down again.

You won! (Probably.)

Strategy 22

Plants needed:

Sunflower

Peashooter

Tall-nut

Spikeweed

Spikerock

Lily Pad

In the first column put your Sunflower, In the second column put your Peashooters. In the third column put your Tall-nuts. In the fourth column, put your Spikeweeds and upgrade them.

Strategy 23

Nine plants needed:

Sunflower

Peashooter

Repeater

Squash

Potato Mine

Spikeweed

Jalapeno

Imitater Potato Mine

Lily Pad

Strategy:

Plants your Sunflowers on the left side. Do not plant them in the water right now.

Once zombies arrives, use a Jalapeno. If you have enough sun, plants Peashooters and Potato Mines.

Once you are ready, plant Lily Pads and put Peashooters and Sunflowers.

One time, you'll have a lot of sun. Use them to replace the Peashooters by Repeaters. Plant them in a second column and a third. But not a fourth: you need to keep your sun for the Potato Mines and the Jalapenos.

Survive and this level is a piece of cake guaranteed! It's so easy that you'll never use your Lawn Mowers and Pool Cleaners!!!

Strategy 24

Good and cheap strategy, eh? Plant 4 Sunflowers on the column 1, and 1 Cattail on water. First zombies blow with Potato Mines. Then in front of Sunflowers plant Starfruits, and plant more Cattails on water. That's all.

Pumpkin (it's really hard to do this strategy without it, as fumes and bobsled landings are a little bit shifty, technically recommended.)

(if you have 9 or 10 slots, fill the rest with placeholders, emergency instants, or something else to take care of the few Pool zombies)

This strategy bases itself on 3 things:

The Fume-shroom's ability to hit every zombie at a medium range in front of it even if it's blocked by another zombie, helping against Bobsleds.

The Spikeweed/rock's ability to destroy Zombonis instantly, and recharging fast enough for continuous use (the Spikeweeds though, the Spikerocks recharge slow)

And finally, the Jalapeno's ability to melt the ice trails(they never leave on their own, and this only leaves us with Zombonis and the few regular Zombies, taken care by the previous two.)

The only hard part is setting up and Spikeweed maintenance.

The setup:
Plant Sunflowers, way at the back. Due to where the Zombie Bobsled Team members usually land, it's actually recommended to not plant a second column of Sunflowers, but rather a full column of Sunflowers, including the back of the pool lanes. If you're doing it that way, more likely than not a Zombie Bobsled Team or Zomboni will come before you can plant the last Sunflower. If it's a Zomboni, simply plant a Spikeweed on the rightmost to the ice trail you can plant in the lane where the Zomboni is. If it's a Bobsled Team, plant a Fume-shroom and wake it up. Be aware though; one lucky Zombie Bobsled Team member may be able to get so far to eat the Fume-shroom at times. This is the sole reason you bring the Pumpkin, to protect your Fume-shrooms from a few lucky zombies. After this it's simple. Set your Fume-shrooms to defend the lanes, and maintain Zombonis away with Spikeweeds. You might prefer to use something else to defend the pool, as the Fume-shroom combined with the Coffee Bean and Lily Pad's cost sum up to a total of 175, or that of a Snow Pea. Once you have enough sun, plant a Jalapeno and destroy the ice trails. Later plant a Spikerock. For reference, here are the total costs:

Fume-shroom+Coffee Bean = 150 sun

Fume-shroom+Coffee Bean+Pumpkin = 275 sun

Spikerock (including Spikeweed) = 225 sun

Jalapeno+Spikerock (for clearing lanes and keeping them cleared, cost includes the Spikeweed to upgrade to Spikerock) = 350 sun

Fume-shroom+Coffee Bean+Lily Pad (if you decide to use the Fume-shrooms for defending the pool) = 175 sun

This strategy is not foolproof though, and it requires some maintenance, but if you feel like using this one, you're free to do so.

Plant Jalapenos when you see a Zombie Bobsled Team, or a Squash (or a Spikeweed/Spikerock when you don't have Squash available) if you see a Zomboni. Use the other ones only when desperate. Doom-shrooms and Cherry Bombs are expensive, so first use others. Once you have 4 columns of Cattails, you can stop and start erasing the ice tracks with Jalapenos.

Use the sun to plant as many Cattails as possible.

Strategy 29

Take the following. Take them in the order they're put in the list - The first ones are the important ones.

Now, your main focus will be the Potato Mines. Always have 50 sun in reserve to plant them. Use your backup sun to make Cob Cannons. They will become your main weapon after wave 2, though before that they're only for if you can't get a Potato Mine fast enough. Cattail is for the water zombies. If a Cob Cannon is defeated, it's ok; it's replaceable. If 2 or 3 die, THEN it could become a problem. Either way, the Squash is for when you can't get a Potato Mine fast enough to kill a Zomboni. Anyway, good luck!

Start with some Sunflowers, don't plant any in the pool, but in square shapes closest to the house. If a Zombie Bobsled Team comes, use a Jalapeno or Potato Mine. If a Zomboni comes, use a Potato Mine or Spikeweed. Then, put some Lily Pads in the pool, and if charged, a Cattail. Once you have at least 2 or 3 Cattails, plant a row of Repeaters, but not in the pool, and keep planting Cattails also. Put Wall-nuts in front of the Repeaters. Once you have 8 Cattails, put Wall-nuts in front of them. Remember to keep using Spikeweeds, Jalapenos, and Potato Mines against Zombonis and Zombie Bobsled Teams.

S= Sunflower

R= Repeater

W= Wall-nut

CT= Cattail

Diagram:

S S R W

S S R W

CT CT CT CT W

CT CT CT CT W

S S R W

S S R W

Strategy 33 (Survival Endless style)

Place at least 3-7 Sunflowers and Imitater Sunflowers in column 1 and 2 and produce at least 125-200 sun until the Zombonis or the Bobsled Teams will come. If the Zomboni or the Bobsled Team comes, use a Jalapeno. Do NOT put Fume-shrooms and Gloom-shrooms YET until you place all the Sunflowers. Put any Spikeweeds/Spikerocks in case the Zombonis come closer to your plants.

If more than 8 slots, use any other type of plant you would like to choose, definitely use a Wall-nut or Tall-nut

Start the mini-game with Sunflowers. Plant 3 of them on each column EXCEPT in the pool, leave that for later. When the Zombonis start to appear, plant Spikeweeds where it goes to instantly kill it. When Bobsled Zombies appear, bring in a Jalapeno (not the imitated one) quickly. Because of the Jalapeno's slow recharge when another Bobsled Team appears, you can now bring in the imitated Jalapeno. When the next wave comes, plant Peashooters on the grass because there will be normal zombies appearing along with Ducky Tube Zombies for them plant Lily Pads quickly with Peashooters upon them. When you get a chance, plant Melon-pults in random places and then the Winter Melons when you receive enough sun. If you have more than 8 slots, you can plant Wall-nuts or Tall-nuts when you get the chance and block zombies.

Strategy 34: Eat Cars and Bobsleds

Needed 10 seed slots for this strategy. Rake needed

Plants Needed:

Sunflower

Chomper

Potato Mine

Squash

Jalapeno

Cherry Bomb

Imitater Cherry Bomb

Lily Pad

Tangle Kelp

Spikeweed

Plant 2 lanes of Sunflowers. Kill the first zombie with the rake. Use Chomper for Bobsleds (Note : Chomper will eat the whole Bobsled with all 4 zombies riding it). Use Cherry Bomb and Tangle Kelp for pool zombies. Still use Chomper for Zombonis. The other instant kills are for emergency.

Strategy 35: Fume-cattail strategy

First, plant a column of Sunflowers (not in water) and recollect sun for Fume-shrooms. If a Zombie Bobsled Team appears, put a Fume-shroom and Coffee Bean. If a Zomboni comes, put a Spikeweed at the final of the ice trail. When you get a column of Fume-shrooms, begins to put Twin Sunflowers and Cattails (at least 10 for the final wave) and Pumpkin the last two (recommended) Pumpkin the Fume-shrooms, and your army will be unbeatable!

Strategy 36

Required plants:

Sunflower

Lily Pad

Cattail

Spikeweed

Spikerock

Jalapeno

Imitater Jalapeno

Potato Mine

Squash

Cherry Bomb

Sunflowers should be planted only in the pool, so if sun is a little bit tight at the start it doesn't matter. Use Squashes, Potato Mines, Jalapenos and Cherry Bombs to get rid of any Bobsled Teams or Zombonis that appear at the start.

Once about six to eight Sunflowers have been planted (only in the pool), dig up the back Sunflower and plant a Cattail. Use Jalapenos and Spikeweeds to fend off the horde as it comes in. Upgrade any Spikeweeds whenever possible. By about three flags in you should have got four Spikerocks in with no ice trails present. Four or five Cattails are enough so do not demolish all of your Sunflowers for Cattails.

Strategy 37: Pool’s Closed + Don’t Pea in the Pool + Chill Out

Pick the following:

Sunflower

Fume-Shroom

Coffee Bean

Gloom-Shroom

Jalapeño

Spikeweed

Wall-Nut

All other plants are unneeded.

Start by planting all 8 Sunflowers in the first two columns as fast as possible. Do not plant anything other than sunflowers unless you’re sure that it won’t delay your Sunflower placement.

If a Zomboni is the first thing to come, buy a Spikeweed to destroy it. If a Bobsled is the first to come then burn it with a Jalapeño.

Continue buying Spikeweeds against Zombonis. If a Bobsled comes and you don’t have a Jalapeño cooled down and ready, place a Wall-Nut to stall it. (Don’t worry about the fact that it gets eaten quickly, as the zombies are about to get destroyed by either a Gloom-Shroom or a Jalapeño.)

Once you have close to 300 sun, buy a Gloom-Shroom in the third column, on either the second or fifth row depending on which half has more snow. Burn the other trail of snow ASAP so that one half has no snow at all.

Continue buying Spikeweeds against Zombonis. Once your Gloom-Shroom has cooled down again, plant it in the third column of the second or fifth row (whichever you didn’t plant before).

Once you have 2 Gloom-Shrooms it’s game over, you win. Keep planting Gloom-Shrooms in the second and fifth rows and kill Zombonis with Spikeweeds. At some point, you’ll be able to destroy Zombonis in the first and sixth rows without needing to use Spikeweeds. Make sure you keep using Spikeweeds to destroy Zombonis in the second and fifth rows, incinerate at least 3 Bobsleds with Jalapeños, and you’ll win!